Word: floppings
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...bird and bottle" picnic supper in his Plaza suite. As the hour for the party approached, Capote's chums became as anxious as he. Said Mrs. Leland Hayward: "We're so dearly fond of Truman, and we were afraid that with all this publicity, the party might flop...
...shack up with anybody for nothing. Worse, Michael Kidd's choreography was more kitsch than kick, while the songs of Bob Merrill scarcely topped the success of his 1953 hit, Doggie in the Window. Holly, wrote Boston Globe Critic Kevin Kelly, was "a multiset disaster, a straightforward musical flop...
...other words, Washington events should be judged according to a standard different from that applied to any other city. A project which one would call a flop in Pittsburgh or New York could be anything from a flat-out failure to a raging success, properly interpreted in a Washington context. Sloppy management is never more than a minor accusation to bring against a D.C. program. Good intentions are rare enough to be acceptable even in the absence of workable policies...
...fact, the League championship could be decided at Ithaca this afternoon, and Princeton could clinch its campaign for Ivy flop of the year. Don't count on either one, however...
...cavalry charge, it was something of a flop. The objective was a sprawl of scrub-grown hills known as "the Crow's Foot," and the mounts were hulking, olive-drab helicopters. Not a single cavalryman carried a saber; instead they cradled automatic rifles in their arms. No plumed, defiant enemy fell to their swift assault, only 47 scrawny, half-naked guerrillas. Yet in its unromantic rendezvous with the Viet Cong last week, the U.S. 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) was far more effective than anything recorded in the dancing dactyls of Tennyson...